Community Corner
MOM-ents: Reuniting at the Mid-Summer Festival
This week, Meghan explains why she loves the Trenton "Street Fair," the city's unofficial homecoming and reunion wrapped into one.
The Trenton Mid-Summer Festival is a much-anticipated event in my household (for me anyways). There are two types of people that are from Trenton: ones who love the street fair and the ones who don’t. I, of course, am one who loves it, but my husband is one who doesn’t (although, I secretly know that he loves it, too).
As you get older and have fewer and fewer close friends, it is nice to get a chance for even a few minutes of face time with people that you have lost touch with over the years.
Last year was the first year I had missed it in probably 10 years due to Matthew's birth. (When my nurse told me that my doctor had asked her to stay until I had Matthew, even though her shift was up and she was planning on going to the street fair, I got that baby out within an hour even though I hadn’t even pushed once yet. I would never want to take the street fair from someone.)
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There is tons of stuff for the kids to do and enjoy during the day, but the nighttime is when the real fun takes place. Everyone heads to dressed to impress and looking to have fun or get in trouble, or both. The people-watching alone at the Mid-Summer Festival does not disappoint.
I got to run into many people that I haven’t seen in ages (or at least since the street fair 2009) and actually talk/scream to them and do a slight catch-up while trying to look surprised when they revealed things about themselves that I had already discovered through a little harmless Facebook stalking (yeah, I do it, and if you say you don’t, you are lying).
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Since it is hard to keep up with everyone individually (especially since when the kids are around it is impossible to have any adult conversation), the street fair gives you a chance to check in with people without trying to plan an evening out.
Because inevitably you will see someone there, have lots of fun with them and then talk about how you should get together more often and when are we going to do it and how will we schedule it, etc. etc. and then you never get together with them anyway, not because you don’t genuinely want to, but because life gets in the way. Of course, now when that happens to me I just tell the person, “We’ll hang out again for sure at the street fair next year.” And we do.
